Yes, my friend you are right IEO's are safer than ICOs because of the management and control capability of a trusted third party the host exchange. An ICO is something anybody can do and there is nothing to guarantee honesty and security. ICOs do not entail monitoring, whereas, to engage in an IEO, a project team is required to meet exchange requirements or else have their token rejected by the exchange.
Like I recently invested in Moozicore. Moozicore is a really good and trustable project for a safe investment.(
https://tokensale.moozicore.com/)